initial commit of file from CVS for e-smith-ntp on Wed 12 Jul 09:00:21 BST 2023

root/sbin/e-smith/systemd/initializedate

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+#!/bin/bash
+#first move old drift file if in the way
+OLDFILE='/etc/ntp/drift'
+NEWFILE='/var/lib/ntp/drift'
+if [ -f "$NEWFILE" ]; then
+        if [ -f "$OLDFILE" ];then
+                /usr/bin/rm -f $OLDFILE
+        fi
+else
+        if [ -f "$OLDFILE" ];then
+                /usr/bin/mv $OLDFILE  $NEWFILE
+        fi
+fi
+if [ -f "$NEWFILE" ]; then
+        /usr/bin/chown ntp:ntp $NEWFILE
+fi
+
+# Run ntpdate so we're not way off on startup.
+ntpstep=/etc/ntp/step-tickers
+tickers=`/bin/sed -e 's/\#.*$//g' $ntpstep`
+#get current date (will need to update this command soon to be retired : ntpd -q -x -g -g -g -g
+/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -p 8 $tickers
+# set hardware clock to the current time
+/usr/sbin/hwclock --systohc
+exit 0